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Maxim was arrested in September 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk.
In October 2022, he was found guilty of "inciting hatred or discord" and "insulting a government official," and sentenced to imprisonment and a large fine.
He was released in August 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Vitaly was arrested in September 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk.
In July 2022, he was found guilty of "inciting hatred or discord" and "insulting a government official," and sentenced to imprisonment and a large fine.
He was released in March 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Dmitry was arrested in September 2021 in connection with a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk. He was initially charged with "insulting a government official," but during the trial, it emerged that the charge was for "insulting Lukashenko" for a comment he made on August 12, 2020, on the social media platform VKontakte. At that time, Dmitry commented on the news under his own name on the TUT.BY page.
In November 2022, he was found guilty of "inciting hatred or discord" and "insulting Lukashenko" and sentenced to imprisonment.
He was released in August 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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Igor, the former bassist for the punk band Destroyers, was arrested on October 1, 2021, in connection with a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk.
In August 2022, he was found guilty of inciting hatred or discord and sentenced to imprisonment.
He was released in March 2024, having fully served his sentence.
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Viktor was arrested in the fall of 2021 as part of a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk.
In April 2022, he was found guilty of "inciting hatred or discord," "insulting a government official," and "insulting Lukashenko," and sentenced to imprisonment and a large fine.
He was released in June 2024, having fully served his sentence.
According to unconfirmed information, in October 2025, a new criminal case was opened against Viktor.
Sergei was arrested on October 1, 2021, in connection with a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk.
In July 2022, he was found guilty of "inciting hatred or discord," "insulting a government official," and "insulting Lukashenko," and sentenced to imprisonment and a large fine.
He was released in March 2024, having fully served his sentence.
Andrei was arrested on September 30, 2021, in connection with a criminal case opened for online comments following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk.
In October 2022, he was found guilty of "inciting hatred or discord" and "insulting a government official" and sentenced to imprisonment.
He was released in the winter of 2023, having fully served his sentence.
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Gennady, a journalist for Komsomolskaya Pravda, was detained in the fall of 2021 following a search of his home as part of a criminal investigation opened following the deaths of KGB officer Dmitry Fedosyuk and IT specialist Andrei Zeltser in Minsk. The case stemmed from an article about Zeltser published in the newspaper.
In March 2023, Gennady was found guilty of "inciting hatred or discord" and "insulting Lukashenko." According to the prosecution, Gennady, "acting out of political and ideological hatred, committed a number of crimes between June 23, 2020, and October 2021." He also "produced and posted negative, obscene, and unacceptable" statements about Lukashenko online.
He was released in November 2023, having fully served his sentence.
Alexander, the deputy director of a special-purpose vehicle manufacturing company, was arrested in June 2021 as part of a criminal case for inciting social hatred. In August of that year, he was convicted for 13 comments left in the Telegram chat "Smorgon-Chat," in which, according to the prosecution, he expressed sharply negative views about police actions during the protests following the presidential elections and also called for violence.
In June 2024, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
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Andrey, a technical supervision engineer from Volkovysk, was arrested in the spring of 2021 in a criminal case opened under the article "organizing mass riots." In September of that year, he was convicted of "calling for participation in mass riots" by posting a message on November 15, 2020, in the Telegram chat "Luka's Gang." Andrey pleaded not guilty at his trial.
On September 11, 2025, it was announced that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime had been forcibly transferred to Lithuania, including citizens of European countries. Andrei was among those released.
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Pavel had previously been subjected to political persecution. In 2008, he was implicated in the so-called "Case of the Fourteen," initiated for participating in a business rally, and was sentenced to two years of restricted freedom without a prison sentence. Since 2010, Pavel has been an activist for the "Tell the Truth" campaign.
Following a protest against election fraud, he was arrested on January 5, 2011. He was accused of organizing and participating in mass riots, as well as desecrating state symbols. In May 2011, the court sentenced him to four years in a maximum-security penal colony. That fall, Pavel was released under a pardon.
Pavel was arrested again on December 22, 2021, at his home in Berezino, in connection with a criminal case opened under charges of "inciting social discord," "defamation of Lukashenko," and "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them." In March 2022, he was sentenced to imprisonment.
In December 2023, Pavel's detention conditions were tightened and he was transferred to a prison regime.
On September 11, 2025, it was announced that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime had been forcibly transferred to Lithuania, including citizens of European countries. Pavel was among those released.
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Evgeniy is a former assistant prosecutor of the Pervomaisky District of Minsk. In August 2020, he initiated an investigation into the actions of people in traffic police uniforms who beat up bikers. The investigation yielded no results, and he soon resigned from the prosecutor's office.
On June 10, 2021, Yevgeny was detained and convicted of "picketing by placing a white-red-white flag on a balcony." Later, the arrest period was extended for another 15 days, and then a criminal case was opened against him for group actions that grossly violate public order. He was additionally charged under the article on "incitement of hatred."
In May 2022, Evgeny was sentenced to imprisonment, and in September of the same year he was stripped of his title.
In the winter of 2025, he was released, having served his entire sentence.
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Alexander was detained in the winter of 2021 and convicted under articles on insulting Lukashenko and inciting hatred on the basis of social affiliation - in relation to police officers. The case of insulting Lukashenko was initiated for a comment on Telegram left by Alexander on September 27, 2020. Under another article, the criminal case was based on messages posted by him from July to October 2020, which, according to the investigation and the court, contained calls for aggressive actions against police officers.
According to human rights activists, Alexander was released in May 2024, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.
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Denis was detained in March 2021 and convicted for comments left in the Telegram chat "Molodechno for Life Chat". The victims were recognized as Molodechno police officers, a female employee of the Grodno OMON, as well as public figures - Lukashenko, Yermoshina and Karpenkov.
In August 2024, he was released under a pardon.
Leonid was detained in February 2021 and later charged with public calls for violence and acts of terrorism, which, according to investigators, he posted in one of the public Telegram chats in October-November 2020. He did not admit his guilt.
According to human rights activists, he was released in April 2024, having fully served his sentence.